News

  • Award Winning Projects!

    We are pleased to announce that the Linden Hills Cottage was awarded the Custom Kitchen Merit Award in the Custom Home Design Awards. The official announcement appears in the May/June issue of Custom Home Magazine.

    The Watermark Awards, sponsored by Builder and Custom Home Magazines, which honor excellence in kitchen and bath design from across the country, have chosen two of our recent projects as award winners.  The Grussing Renovation in St. Louis Park, recognized for its vintage kitchen design, was awarded Best Kitchen in a Remodeled Home Under 2000 square feet.  The Victorian Bath, a master bathroom renovation in Minneapolis, was awarded 2010 Bath of the Year and Best Master Bath in a Remodeled Home.

  • 2010 Homes By Architects Tour

    Due to the success of previous tours, the third annual Homes By Architects Tour will take place on September 18th and 19th, 2010.

    The tour is a great opportunity to talk with architects and homeowners and learn how the process of working with an architect can add value from original design concept all the way through construction and project completion. We will have two homes featured on this year’s tour: the Lake Rose Cottage in Minnetonka and 801 Washington, a renovated loft in downtown Minneapolis.

    Please visit the tour’s website: www.homesbyarchitects.org for information about tour maps, tour schedule and ticket information.

  • Home of the Month

    We are proud to announce that two projects were selected for the 8th annual Home of the Month Awards. The Grussing Renovation and the Martinson Cabin were both selected for meeting the following criteria: the home creates or encourages a sense of “place”, responds to its surroundings, has particularly distinguishing characteristics, and reflects its owners’ vision of “home”.

    Sponsored by the AIA-Minnesota and the Star Tribune, a team of jurors selected twelve residential projects by Minnesota architects to be featured with photos and an article on the first Sunday of each month.

  • 2010 RAVE Award

    The RAVE (Residential Architects Vision and Excellence) Awards, a joint venture of the AIA-Minnesota and Minneapolis/St. Paul Magazine, selected the Progressive Farmhouse as one of its five recipients this year.

    From across the field, the house strikes a familiar pose – a tall, proud, white farmhouse, like the one just down the road.  Yet this house has combined the latest technology with the simple sustainable ways of living from the past.  Located on 80 acres near Lake City, MN, this new farmhouse, sitting at the transition between prairie farm country and limestone bluffs dropping to the Mississippi, breathes new life into an old farmstead.

    The judges appreciated the simplicity of form and materials, state of the art building materials (designed for LEED Certification), and the way that the design combined “a stripped down rural vernacular with a modern sensibility to reveal ‘the essence of a farmhouse’”.